Devolution

By Jessica Studdert | 01 February 2017

Jessica Studdert breaks down the Government’s recent Building our Industrial Strategy green paper...

Rebooting devolution takes no more than common sense

By Jack Hunter | 01 February 2017

The devolution agenda has come to a standstill but it can still be revived. Ed Cox and Jack Hunte...

DEVOLUTION

Still time to get it right

By Tony McArdle | 01 February 2017

Decades of feeble attempts to reform the structure of local government has left the map in a mess...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The shared society must be routed in communities

By Cllr Judith Blake | 01 February 2017

The prime minister's vision for a better, fairer Britain must begin in local communities, writes ...

DCLG

In search of unicorns?

01 February 2017

Former ministers are a worry – they always give the game away when they are out of office.

WHITEHALL

Top cities get cash to ease disabled back into work

By Mark Conrad | 01 February 2017

Greater Manchester and London will receive new powers to help disabled people get into work, the ...

FINANCE

Directors call for £1bn emergency funding

By Dan Peters | 30 January 2017

Councils could fail to meet to meet their statutory duties without ‘emergency’ government funding...

FINANCE

Brexit makes the case for fiscal devo, says London Finance Commission

By Heather Jameson | 27 January 2017

Brexit has made the case for devolution even more ‘acute,’ the chair of the second London Finance...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Solent devolution deal 'highly unlikely'

By William Eichler | 27 January 2017

Opposition from Hampshire CC has made a Solent combined authority ‘highly unlikely,’ the leader o...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Children's services 'absent from devolution debates'

By Sam Clayden | 24 January 2017

Overlooking children’s services in devolution discussions is a missed opportunity that is costing...

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